UK Ayletts on the Web

As I haven't checked with all the people below on whether they would want their email address exposed to the outside world like this, I have only put in pointers to Ayletts with web pages. Ayletts who only have an email may be mentioned but their email is not given - if you really want to get in touch with any of them, you'll have to get in touch with me first.

If anyone on this page objects, just email me and I'll remove you. And if I've got it wrong , let me know what I should have said.

Name	Comments	Web address
Andrew Aylett	Andrew studied Informatics at Edinburgh Uni and now works as a Compiler Engineer for Analog Devices in Edinburgh. He's a son of Martin and grandson of Bernard below.	http://www.aylett.co.uk
Aylett Nurseries	The Aylett who was in charge at this family firm is called Roger, but I think he recently retired. His family came from Takeley a long time ago. You want dahlias, they got them.	http://www.aylettnurseries.co.uk
Aylett Sand and Gravel Ltd	They hang out both in Great Baddow and Rainham (also in Ipswich) but no idea which Aylett was involved. There is also an Aylett Sand and Gravel in Virginia.	http://www.essexconcrete.com/ASGravel/ASGravel_Main.htm
Bernard Aylett	Bernard was a Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at what is now Queen Mary, University of London (but is now retired) and Martin's father.His ancestors originally came from Aythorpe Roding where they kept a pub called the Ax and Compasses during the 19thC.	http://www.aylett.co.uk/people/bernard_aylett/
Beverley Aylett	Beverley was a Technical Manager at the National Physical Laboratory working in materials degradation but she might now be at Informa Publishing Group Limited	http://www.informa.com/
Chris Aylett	Chris has raced many cars and is CEO of the Motorsport Industry Association. This may well be his entry on LinkedIn	http://www.the-mia.com/
Chris Aylett	A completely different Chris Aylett who works for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	http://www.gemconsortium.org/about.aspx?page=cont_contact_GEM
Crispin Aylett	Crispin is a barrister who now seems to be Junior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court	http://www.3raymondbuildings.com/members.asp?mid=24
David Aylett	David was born in Stevenage and according to his webpage is a "rugby-playing, real-ale quaffing, Pagan West Ham fan"	http://www.angelfire.com/rings/pagan-hammer/
David Aylett	This David is a cousin of mine who used to work as an architect and has been very active with the Festival Choir Aylesbury	http://www.aylesburyfestivalchoir.org/about_aylesbury_festival_choir.html
David Aylett	A completely different David Aylett who is active in the Surrey Cycling Opportunities Group and campaigns against the sort of local planning that makes everyone drive around in cars. His father Stephen was a conscientious objector in WW1 and his family were builders in Islington in the 19thC	http://www.aqvm78.dsl.pipex.com/SWLDA/Sections/Beginners.htm
Graham Aylett	Graham was the secretary of the Bucks Archaeology Society and more recently chair of the Aylesbury Old Town Residents Association. His family originally came from Aythorpe-Roding I believe.	http://www.irhh.org/home/news/SecretGardens/SecretGardens.htm
James Aylett	James took Maths at Clare College, Cambridge and is definitely a computer person	http://www.tartarus.org/~james/
Joanne Aylett	Joanne is an Australian who has been living in London for the last five years or so. This might be her Facebook profile.
Kenneth Aylett	Kenneth is a barrister in criminal law at New Bridge St Chambers. I wonder if he is related to Crispin?	www.15nbs.com/profiles/kenneth_aylett/kenneth_aylett_cv.pdf
Malcolm Aylett	Malcolm was a GP In Wooler, Northumberland, and is an expert in hypertension	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=Aylett+M[au]&dispmax=50
Martin Aylett	Martin works for BT at their research site near Ipswich and has a very flashy home page	http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1254/
Matthew Aylett	My brother - has been carrying out research in speech and language at University of Edinburgh and is CTO of the speech start-up Cereproc	www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~matthewa/
Paul R Aylett	Paul lives in a small village near York, though he originally comes from Leicestershire and before that his family came from Kent.
Pauline Aylett	Pauline works at University of Wolverhampton	http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level4.asp?UserType=11&Level4=835
Peter Aylett	My father - now retired and living in South-West London
Peter Aylett	Not my father, but the brother of Andrew who studied Maths at Bath.	http://www.aylett.co.uk/people/peter_aylett//
Peter and Catherine Aylett	What a popular Aylett name Peter seems to have become.	http://www.aylett.org/
Robert Aylett	Robert was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Languages at Goldsmiths College, London and then became deputy VC at North London Uni. He has published on German literature, especially Hans Sachs	http://www.jstor.org/pss/2544455
Steve Aylett	Steve writes interesting SF and seems to be becoming quite famous and successful.	http://www.steveaylett.com

Aylett trivia

Ayletts mostly originate in Essex, with a bunch from the neighbouring edge of Hertfordshire and a few from Kent and from Cambridgeshire. For lots more about them see my All About Aylett pages.

Aylett, Virginia, on the Mattaponi River, is called that after an Aylett family whose ancestor probably arrived from Essex in the 1650s.

A number of very early female Ayletts with interesting first names basically equivalent to Ailith can be found in the Dictionary of English Surnames.

Dr Robert Aylett (1583-1655) was a prominent ecclesiatical lawyer and rather prolific poet of mostly religious verse. However his most accessible piece is probably 'A wife not ready made but bespoken'. His poetry is in the huge database of English poetry, and some of it can be browsed.

A relation of his, John Aylett (?1628-1669), lived in Boston, USA, in the early 1650s, then got captured by the Spanish in 1655/6. Eventually getting back to England, he joined the Cromwellian navy and fought against the Spanish around Jamaica. Thrown out after the Restoration, he rejoined for the second Dutch war and fought in the (unsuccessful) four day battle in 1666. Eventually he was killed when a flagship - the Oxford - on which he was taking part in a Council of War, blew up, killing nearly everybody.

An unfortunate Thomas Aylett got transported to Australia for seven years in 1837 after being convicted at the Herts Quarter Sessions in St Albans of stealing a tame duck.

James Aylett also got transported for seven years to Van Dieman's land (Tasmania) after being convicted at the Surrey Quarter Sessions in 1831 of stealing a piano - how did he do that?

Three other Aylett men are also known to have been transported, apart from those who emigratwed voluntarily after about 1850.

One intrepid Aylett family from Hawkwell joined one of the wagon trains to Utah in 1866.

There is a St Aylett near Saffron Waldron which is now a moated manor house but was originally some kind of a shrine to ane early (?Saxon) martyr

Were Ayletts and Aylotts originally the same name? Nobody knows - but all Aylotts seem to come from a fairly well-defined part of east Hertfordshire.

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